The Best And Worst Of WCW Monday Nitro 9/1/97: Spot The Difference

Previously on the Best and Worst of WCW Monday Nitro: Arn Anderson retired from wrestling in an inspiring, tear-jerking speech, giving his “spot” in the Four Horsemen to Curt Hennig. It’s one of those timeless moments that touches the hearts of wrestling fans forever. Nothing could ruin that! Not in a million years!

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And now, the best and worst of WCW Monday Nitro, originally aired on September 1, 1997.

1. Always found it interesting that they didn’t cover Benoit in the parody. WCW must have known what they had, and had a “protect at all costs” edict in place. (….and there’s nothing really mockable about WCW-era Benoit, aside from being super-serious)

2. Re: Buff’s in-match riffing….funniest example of this was the match where the ref backs him into the corner to admonish him, Buff repeating “I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry”. The ref turns around to the opponent, and Buff turns directly to the corner camera and says “I’m not really sorry!”

I wasn’t a WCW kid growing up in the 90’s, so I’m experiencing most of this for the first time, and one thing that’s really surprised me is how infrequently Sting actually shows up. I knew that he didn’t wrestle or speak for so long, but I always thought he was some kind of weekly terror in the rafters and was descending to the ring to mess nWo dudes up or do his bat trust test all the time. I’m honestly surprised WCW had the restraint to do it this way once they saw how over Crow Sting was.

“and the crowd couldn’t give a fuck if they were handed one before the match and ordered at gun point to give it back.”
This is awesome writing. Mentioning Hamrick is bad writing though, please don’t do that again.

For all the nWo’s bluster they never really try to destroy WCW, which is good since WCW pretty much never attempts to fight them off. Page, Luger and Mime Sting can only do so much when everyone else is off doing their own thing. You’d think nWo vs Sting and the Horsemen would be the ticket, but nope.

ah yes. this is savage. i love it so much because its a 38 year old man making fun of a 39 year old who could still at his age right now work circles around him. “liver spot” is a true classic. i think its the first time flair ever got publicly lampooned for crying all the fucking time.

how many months are we away from the racist atrocity that is x pac (i didn’t even realize he’s in both of these….. is he a genius???) as mark henry?

This must have been mentioned somewhere else before, but could Sean Waltman be the first (and possibly only) 3 time WWE Hall of Famer? There’s no way that both nWo and DX aren’t getting in at some point and Waltman certainly could get in on his own merits as well, but that’s not quite a slam dunk.

i also want to point out that curt hennig was older than both nash and anderson. wcw was really weird.

By: shb23

08.25.2017 @ 6:39 PM

I know Bagwell was a jerk Irl, and the thing with his mom calling in sick for him is weird, but he is one of my fave wrestlers ever because he was funny. He either understood the underlying homoeroticism and humor of wrasslin’, or maybe he was just being dismissive, but he was very funny.

I’m sorry, but for a guy who screams racism whenever Vince McMahon coughs at a black person, you seem very happy about the Buff Bagwell GIF. I’m not offended, but I also wasn’t the one who screamed racism when the New Day vignettes first showed up.